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- The lives, loves and medical complaints of the doctors, nurses and patients at Sydney's Albert Memorial Hospital.
- Set in a Sydney secondary school located in a tough, under-privileged suburb; Greg Walker, the new English teacher has just transferred in from a country school.
- The Australian version of the popular American game show where two families try to match answers to a series of questions with those given in a survey of 100 people.
- Ayla, a Turkish girl, is torn between her strict Muslim father who believes women belong in the home, and the western freedom which surrounds her. She is a brilliant student, and Walker fears her father will take her out of school.
- A blind girl, Faith Storey, comes to Glenview High, determined to find a place for herself in a normal world.
- Chuck Guildford, the school's top rugby player, drops out of the team just prior to the finals in order to further his career as a budding concert pianist.
- Pregnant student Jean Wills is determined to win her freedom from the system at the expense of Walker's career.
- Three students at Glenview High face expulsion as a disciplinary measure, and Greg Walker decides to start a Social Assistance Program to teach them a lesson in community living.
- Porky, the school fat boy, has been victimised all his life, until he gets a weapon in the form of a plaster cast from a broken arm. Misunderstanding Walker's advice, Porky goes on a rampage that leaves his classmates hospitalised. After the plaster is removed, Porky deliberately breaks his arm again to get his 'weapon' back.
- Greg Walker is concerned about the falling grades of Penny Wilson, a final year student. Penny's world is collapsing around her, as her well-to-do but alcoholic mother takes an unreasoning hatred to her daughter.
- Sally, a girl in Greg Walker's class, is slowly being torn apart by the pressures of raising a family of younger children in the face of a well-meaning neighbour's attempts to have her family taken by the Welfare Department.
- A new student from a wealthy family comes to Glenview, and it seems he is dyslectic and unable to read. Walker doubts this and, in trying to get to the source of the boy's inability, uncovers a criminal and unbalanced mind.
- Carter catches a boy cheating in his class, and the boy uses his influence with his father, a powerful local councillor, to withhold funds for the development of a new science lab unless Carter is dismissed or transferred.
- Greg Walker's first week at Glenview High confronts him with an unemployed man at crisis point who threatens to shoot his wife and child.
- The arrival of a trainee teacher at Glenview catalyses a misunderstanding between Walker and Robbie, and makes Tony Moore give serious thought to his future.
- Greg and Tom Walker are summoned to Melbourne where their father is dying in hospital. When their father suffers a fatal coronary it causes Greg and Tom to examine their lives and goals.
- As a result of a fatal accident, Tony Moore is charged with drunk driving and his school friends desert him.
- Robbie meets and marries the man of her dreams. After the marriage his true self emerges, and Robbie finds more trouble than she can handle.
- Jill refuses a marriage proposal and finds herself the target of emotional harassment that begins to threaten both her life and Greg Walker's.
- A previously sociable, happy girl is living a life of complete isolation and rejection of every friend she has. Walker finds she has been deserted and she is determined to avoid Child Welfare.
- When Tony Moore's parents are sacked from their cleaning job, he turns to criminal activities to raise some money.
- Greg Walker's estranged uncle dies, and the division of his estate results in bitterness that nearly splits the family.
- Edward Lander was headed for Duntroon Military College, before becoming a pacifist after taking part in debates in Greg Walker's English class.
- Helen, a student, is stricken with leukaemia, and her struggle to keep her hope alive is an epic story of courage.
- Veteran Sid Roberts arrives as a temporary history teacher, and his unique approach to teaching has the school in an uproar.
- Margaret Gibson meets an old friend and their relationship blossoms. She resigns from her job and agrees to marry him, but then things start to go wrong.
- Tom Walker falls in love with a beautiful young university student, and their relationship threatens Greg's work at school as well as their domestic life.
- Margaret Gibson returns to Glenview High, uncertain as to whether she wants to continue as principal at a time when the deputy principal, John O'Brien, is facing threats of a strike amongst the staff and a crisis in his personal life.
- A young student teacher comes to Glenview High, and his attraction for a young schoolgirl leads to murder. In the investigation that follows, suspicion falls in the most unlikely areas.
- A bright student in her final year is starting to make a name for herself as a model. Walker fights to encourage her to stay with her studies and not throw away years of effort, but he comes into conflict with his brother and the acting principal, and Harry Carter faces legal action when a classroom experiment goes wrong.
- A young couple playing Romeo and Juliet in a school play, Mary Turner and Philip Peterson, run away together. But Mary is under age and her father wants to have Philip arrested. They turn to Greg Walker for help, and he is faced with the problem of reconciling both sets of parents.
- Turmoil strikes when Jill leaves home to join a quasi-religious sect which has already had an unpleasant influence on the lives of some of Walker's students.
- Harry Carter's casual introduction to the mother of one of his students leads to a relationship that almost stifles him.
- A weird generation gap conflict presents Greg Walker with a classroom revolution and a student whose future appears damned by his very conformity.
- The lives of the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
- Greg Walker is replaced whilst on a seminar by an English teacher who is also acclaimed for his delicate sensitive poetry. Behind the mask of the poet is a sadistic hedonist.
- An Aboriginal student of outstanding sporting ability, the son of a former boxing champion, is a militant black activist who sees his sporting prowess as an opportunity to promote his cause. His father disagrees and wants his son to continue his education.